documentary hand could have been done by a professional, just as easily as a manuscript displaying a bookhand. Some of the New Testament manuscripts that look to be “reformed documentary” could, indeed, be the work of a professional who was simply working at a quicker pace. Most of the early New Testament manuscripts (of the second and third centuries) display a documentary look or a reformed documentary look. And a few other manuscripts exhibit a “common” hand—that is, it looks like the work of